He had set to opening his paints while she undressed, though he had only managed to get two open. He admired her quickness as it occasionally happened that he had to wait several minutes for a woman to undress. "No, I don't mind." he made sure there was no paint on his hands then came to help her.
His nimble fingers had no trouble with her laces, it was a task he had grown used to over the years. He had once heard that a man wasn't a man until he could remove a woman's clothes on his own in the dark, he had found that saying crude, but if there was one thing Antony knew how to do it was help a woman undress. Once it was untied he left it there, leaving her to remove it completely as it would not have been right for him to remove it for her.